Break/Fix Contracts in Wales

Break/Fix
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring Break/Fix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Break/Fix over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 40 45
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing Break/Fix 4 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.27% 0.94% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.30% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £122 - -
25th Percentile £145 - £102
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £186 - £130
Median % change year-on-year - - -52.29%
75th Percentile £231 - £160
90th Percentile £256 - £190
UK median daily rate £171 £200 £160
% change year-on-year -14.50% +25.00% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
Median hourly rate £21.01 £13.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +55.63% - -
UK median hourly rate £18.87 £16.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +14.36% -6.88% +12.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

Break/Fix falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 280 308 469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 88.61% 72.13% 86.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 195 354
10th Percentile £190 £143 £180
25th Percentile £293 £288 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £475 £494
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% -3.80% -1.25%
75th Percentile £488 £551 £579
90th Percentile £625 £625 £638
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.86% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 44 27
10th Percentile £13.42 £11.75 £15.68
25th Percentile £14.42 £15.48 £16.98
Median hourly rate £21.01 £20.24 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% +3.82% -2.55%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.44 £24.38
90th Percentile £28.94 £81.63 £49.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Break/Fix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Break/Fix in Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Break/Fix in Wales.

Daily rate trend for Break/Fix in Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Break/Fix in Wales over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Break/Fix in Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Break/Fix in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Break/Fix in Wales

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Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Break/Fix within the Wales region over the 6 months to 2 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales +6 2 £186 - 4
Mid Wales - 2 - -
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Field Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Field Service Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ticket Management
2 1 (25.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (25.00%) Batch Scheduling
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JCL
1 1 (25.00%) Korn
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Dell
1 2 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) BMC
2 1 (25.00%) Micro Focus
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle